So long 2023... and thanks for the fish!

Getting this in early as we are off out for the evening... although will most likely be home and asleep before midnight haha.

This year has been an odd one for hobbying, as can be seen by only 62 blog posts and 522 models painted... quite a bit less than last year! I've had many patches of time where there has been zero motivation to paint or build stuff, and others where its been all guns blazing; no constant hobby.

That said i have managed to get some cool stuff painted: A Dweghom army and a Nords army for Conquest, Sythopian Wars Starter Box, A Norman army for On Bloody Ground, Empire for Starwars Legion and Paraguayans for MWWBKs.

Older projects like the Baratheon's and Neutrals for ASOIAF have gone as the game evolved into something that wasn't for me, and Conquest has nicely taken its place this year!

As for next year i have two big projects in mind; Flesheater Courts for Age of Sigmar... and Warriors of Chaos for Warhammer Old World whoop! I've spent the last week building up a load of AoS Slaves to Darkness on square bases haha and its been glorious.

2024 is going to be glorious!

Conquest: Nords Stalkers

 Rounding out this project for now, and probably my last painted models for 2023 are this regiment of Stalkers for my Nords army:

Not as good as Bow Chosen but quite a few points cheaper, they are a reasonable shooting unit and skirmish line for my forces for now.

Conquest: Sea Jotnar!

 Finished up the other big lad for my forces with this Sea Jotnar:

Another fantastic model to paint up, really pleased how it came out in the end. This leaves me with just some Stalkers to complete for my 1500pts tourney force in three weeks, and just needing to buy some Bow Chosen and another Blooded to complete my 2000pt list for regular play.

Conquest: Mountain Jotnar!

 On to the big guys of the army of which here is the first, a Mountain Jotnar:

I snagged this resin Artisan Series Mountain Jotnar along with a Sea Jotnar in an ebay bargain... almost 50% off it was too good a deal to pass up!

He's been done proper grimy and grubby with patches of grass / mud / tree on him similar to the box art but changing a few colours to reflect my existing force and paint collection. 

Conquest: Nords Raiders!

 Man alive two posts in two days!

Here are a unit of Raiders to be a bunker for my Shaman Warlord to cast is spells and bring his excellent supremacy haha.

I've made the unit so it has a Captain as an Officer for extra resolve and the option of being a medium unit rather than a light unit... situationally handy!

Conquest: Nords Trolls finished!

 I've completed the second rank of the Troll regiment i posted last week:

Glad they are done but its an enjoyable quick scheme to do and should look great with the whole army on the board! 

Age of Sigmar and Mordheim: Royal Beastflayers

The club is starting up a Mordheim campaign in the new year and i wanted to use Undead.. In our last one maybe 15 years ago i also ran them and they are a lot of fun!

I picked up a box of the AoS / Warcry Royal Beastflayers from the Flesheater Courts range as i like the models and may have also bought a box or two of the new army box haha

Vampire (Royal Flaymaster)

Dire Wolves (Offal Hounds)

Necromancer (Beastflayer Baron)

Dregs (Ghoul Trackers)

Ghouls (Gore Squires)

Conquest: Nords Trolls

 Back with some Trolls for my growing Nords army:

This is only have my regiment but time was short and i wanted to get some stuff posted up, quite enjoyed painting these and they are much better in the flesh than the odd photos on Para Bellum.